The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-11-18
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Ia Epiisns d hs Principal EVsab Now
Attracting Public Interest

A number OF cases OF scarlet fever
are reported in Coles valley, Southern
Oregon.
Eighteen young army officers have
been sentenced TO various terms Of
exile in Siberia on charges connected
with a revolutionary plot against the
government at St. Petershnrg.s
Rev. Mr. Tate, while boat riding on
a small lake, near Waisenburg, Col,
capsized the boat and waR drowned i'm
the presence OF his wife, children and
several men standing on the bank,
who we're powerless to render assist
ance.
Kneeland's hotel at Shelton. w. T..
was burned to the ground, and also a
saloon adjoining. The hotel was rented
BY man named August McLean, and
Il is thought by the people in tlias VI
cinity that he set il on fire from mo-
tives OF revenge. An unknown man
was consumed in the building.
A fatal collision occurred MT Bren-
ner station, on the Atchison Il Ne
braska railroad. A passenger train
coming south crashed into the rear of
q freight, telescoping the caboose, which
was occupied BY six graders on their
way TO Arkansas John Worth was
scalded TO death. VIM. Robinson was
seriously scalded and will probably
die. T McEIdowney, Chas. Pullman
and A. F. Wilcox were badly scalded.
August Spies, Adolph Fischer ,AdoIph
Engel end A. 7. Parsons, the anar-
chists, were hanged nc Chicago A pc
tition with eleven miles Of signatures
was presented to Gov. Oglesby, praying
that the condemned men be reprieved
The request was granted in the cases
OF Michael Scwab and Samuel Fe1den.
Meantime Louis Lining had committed
suicide by blowing his head of with
Illuminating cap. The other four paid
the penalty of their crime on the seal
fold with remarkable coolhess Eugel,
Parsons, Fischer and Hewab we've
printers.
The Canadian Pacific overland
sleeper, leaving Vancouver, and pas
senger car were thrown off the track,
tumbling down an emhankment thirty
feet high at place between Grassette
and Otter, about half way between
Port Arthur and Cartier. The cause
of the accident was q broken rail and
the fact that the train was trying to
make up lost time. The drawing room
car was full OF sleeping passengers,
and considering that the car was a
com plete wreck, il seems providential
that beyond few cuts and bruises ali
escaped uninjured.
A Montgomery, Ala, special tells a
horrible story of the burning of two
eolored men. They had assaulted
young white woman, and were cap
tured by posse OF farmers. The young
woman identified them on sight A
trial was had and the people decided
that the two men should be burned to
death. A log pile was built on the
side OF public road, and the negroes
were chained each between two heavy
logs and then the four logs were chained
together, so that the widest contor
tions OF the wretehes could not shake
them. A FIRE was kindled, which room
blazed up and enveloped them. Their
writhings and screams were not heard
long, for the flames soon put an end to
life
The trouble with the Crow Indians
is ended. Gen. Ruger gave them one
hour and half in which to consider
his demand to surrender. They re
fused, and a red-hot skirmish then re-
suited, in which Corporal Charles
Thompson was killed, Private Eugene
MallUy slightly wounded, and Private
Clark thrown from his horse and his
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ensued, the Indians retreating, some
to a peaceful gathering near the agency,
and others crossing the river and tax
ing TO the hills. Swordbearer" made
a final stand at the crossing of the Lit
tie Horn, about one mile below the
agency, in which he and probably
three OF his followers were killed.
81 Swordbearer's body was brought into
camp, but the other Indians are only
reported dead. Most of the Indians
circled about and returned TO the
agency, mixing with the other camps.
There are n0w supposed to be from
twenty to fifty on the outside.
At st. Louis an explosion of gasoline
! in the rear cellar of Michael Newman's
grocery store, lifted the two story build
| ing from its foundation and dropped
| it back again in a mass OF ruins, be
meath which were buried twelve per.
sons. They were Michael Newman
aged 81; Mrs. Newman, aged 40
Mamie Newman, aged Is; Nellie New
man, aged 15; Kato Newman, aged Ii
Eddie Newman, aged 13; Charles De
we're, Mrs. Charles Devere, Hattie
Brown. OF Columbus, KY, Charles Elf
ferd, Miss Bryany, and Mrs. Bergeley
The explosion was followed by fire
which was with great difficulty put oul
by the firemen. They then began the
search for the dead. All of the up
stairs was occupied as a tenement
Newman and his family lived over tbs
store. The force of the explosion wa,
terrific. An entire block of building,
north of and across the alley from tn,
building in which the explosion tool
place was gutted by the blast. TIL,
Newman block was crushed in and wa
covered by the roof, which had settled
down upon the ruins and formed |
barrier through which the rescuers has
to cut away the beams and walls
which impeded their progress In th
same building lived Charles Devere,
travelling salesman, and his wife. Wis
iting them was Miss Hattie Brown, o
Columbus, Kentucky. She was badl,
injured, but miraculously escapes
death, and was the only person VIII
passed through the horrible ordeal an
lived to tell the story of her escape.
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